QOL: Adds bash tab completion cycling#4634
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Summary
Updates the bash config (inputrc) to enable menu-style tab completion for completion candidates. Preserves the existing “common prefix” completion behaviour while allowing candidates to be cycled using repeated Tab presses.
1st Tab: Functionally remains the same, showing a list of completions and filling in common when ambiguous.
2nd+ Tab: Cycles through each candidate (with Shift-Tab cycling backwards)
This behaviour mimics what I got used to liking when using ZSH previously.
Drawbacks
You do lose the nice annotations on some completions by replacing
completewithmenu-complete. Maybe binding to a different key combo could get around this.e.g:
Before:
After: